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Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by Higgenbotham » Wed May 29, 2024 10:09 am

Last Thursday’s 2466 NASDAQ net declines, the highest since February 13, 2024, indicated extreme market selling pressure. However, this metric occurred when markets celebrated a record quarter for Nvidia and announced a ten-for-one stock split—especially telling behavior in a “great news environment.”

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by Higgenbotham » Wed May 29, 2024 9:24 am

The stock market should give some lead time for knowing when it will all fall apart, but probably not as much lead time as in 1929. This morning it's coming off its recent all time high. Meantime, the prep work will continue.
Higgenbotham wrote:
Sat May 11, 2024 1:52 pm
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Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by aedens » Tue May 28, 2024 11:15 pm

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by Higgenbotham » Tue May 28, 2024 9:05 pm

Guest wrote:
Tue May 28, 2024 2:17 am
What about security, Higgiebotham?

This issue is often ignored by half-baked preppers. I had a "Gaia Earth mother" tell that "she would share" the produce from her small farm and criticized me (to the point of finger wagging) that "I should believe in the humanity of my fellow human beings".

She also has a Biden sign on her front lawn...

I can imagine that one day I will find her corpse one day wearing only her Birkenstock sandals.

I told that I understand human nature very well.

I didn't wish her luck.
The basics of security are really easy to understand. It's just that very few implement them.

It's similar to food storage.
Higgenbotham wrote:
Fri Feb 19, 2021 3:03 pm
I had read an old book from the 1970s that told how to store food according to the Mormons. I bought some food they recommended that could be both stored long term and provide complete protein, enough food to survive for about a year and about 20 5 gallon pails from Sherwin-Williams. To store the food properly, I rented a nitrogen gas cylinder. I put the hose from the cylinder into the bottom of the bucket, put the food into the bucket, then put the lid over it, turned the valve on, which displaced the air out of the bucket with nitrogen until a match would go out when placed near the bucket, pulled the hose out, and snapped the bucket shut. Then put it all in the back of the closet.

I almost forgot to mention. When I returned the nitrogen gas cylinder, the owner of the gas company asked what I was doing with it. I told him. I asked him if anyone had ever rented a nitrogen gas cylinder for that purpose. He said no, not in the 25 years he'd been in that business had he ever heard that.
The basics of food storage are easy to understand and implement, but how many really do it. Not that many.

One thing maybe worth mentioning that is a bit off the beaten track and in my plans. I plan to put what looks like a tool storage shed out back, but it's really going to be a small rental unit. I plan to rent it to retired military or a retired police officer or similar profile at a bargain rate.

I made those types of associations when I was in the house rental business and it worked well. One was with a retired cop mentioned May 4, 2015 who took the doors off properties when he wanted the tenants out. I guess that has to do with security, right?

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by Guest » Tue May 28, 2024 2:17 am

What about security, Higgiebotham?

This issue is often ignored by half-baked preppers. I had a "Gaia Earth mother" tell that "she would share" the produce from her small farm and criticized me (to the point of finger wagging) that "I should believe in the humanity of my fellow human beings".

She also has a Biden sign on her front lawn...

I can imagine that one day I will find her corpse one day wearing only her Birkenstock sandals.

I told that I understand human nature very well.

I didn't wish her luck.

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by Higgenbotham » Tue May 28, 2024 12:10 am

Also, this was posted a few years ago. The information in this pdf (page 5) is about the agricultural production capacity of US states.
Higgenbotham wrote:
Sun Dec 13, 2020 12:59 am
At the present time, Texas is one of the few states that has a positive balance of trade and it probably has the largest per capita positive balance of trade of any state in the US. Provided cross border trade is possible, Texas would be able to buy all the food it needs from outside its borders with the revenue it gets from the rest of its powerhouse economy.

The problem lies in the event that is not possible. Texas in no way is a net exporter of food and is in no way self-sufficient in food.

https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcont ... ortspapers

The first column of the table on page 5 shows the gross state product for agriculture in millions of dollars. That can be recalculated on a per capita basis. The states with the highest per capita agriculture production are: South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, and Idaho, I believe in that order. I could be wrong, but that's what comes to my mind off the top of my head. But I believe those numbers will give a very good assessment of where US states stand in relative per capita production of agricultural product value.

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by Higgenbotham » Mon May 27, 2024 11:30 pm

Higgenbotham wrote:
Fri May 24, 2024 1:44 pm
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Probably another good proxy for a quick judge of general growing conditions would be to look at corn yields.

So in the Blackland Prairie area of Texas where I am now, corn yields are OK but not great. It can be seen from the USDA corn yield map that there are much better places, but at this time I don't care to deal with being in the vicinity of large row cropping operations. Right now I butt up against gently sloping pasture land that has some water runoff onto the property. I wouldn't want that water runoff to come from a row cropping operation.

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Search results for: corn yields soil fertility
https://www.google.com/search?q=corn+yi ... +fertility

Will be turning to the economy soon and a lottery economy update, which I haven't done in some time. The stock market may have turned Thursday on the Nvidia results. I've been heavily short.

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by Guest » Mon May 27, 2024 11:23 pm

Sorry for the typos. It's not easy for me to use a small screen smartphone.

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by Guesr » Mon May 27, 2024 11:22 pm

I hold gold and silver, and I have made a large profit lately. However, if gold goes to $7000 an ounce as some predict, what kind of situation will exist outside my front door?

I know people who are gloating about gold going parabolic, but when I ask them what life will be like for the guy in the street, they really don't care. They will care when their fro t door is broken down.

Also, I know people who moves to the Caribbean to "escape" and were victims to brutal home invasions. Some of these people were murdered; people that I had known. Avoid the 3rd world.

Russia is a 3rd world country. Don't kid yourself.

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by aeden » Mon May 27, 2024 5:37 pm

Also if then Trump will be the selected bag holder. Red or Blue went over the wire some time ago.
I think the 4th turning will take longer than assumed also. John had a longer view on this than some did.

$43.86 Silver eagles. Rather sooner than I assumed actually.

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